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And it came to pass, when they had come, that he looked on Eliab and said, “Surely the Lord’S anointed is before Him.”

But the Lord said unto Samuel, “Look not on his countenance or on the height of his stature, because I have refused him; for the Lord seeth not as man seeth. For man looketh on the outward appearance, but the Lord looketh on the heart.”

Then Jesse called Abinadab and made him pass before Samuel. And he said, “Neither hath the Lord chosen this.”

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